Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-05-19
EENIANlSM AND THE VATICAN.
Memoir Of the Irish College at Rome
Parnen and Gladstone Denounced

London Chronicles correspondent at Rome has
received the prOof-sheets Of the memoir prepared
by the Irish College. The document begins by
pointing out that in the Parnell or the Fenian
movement interests far higher and holier than the
material advantages sought for are at stake
Genuine Irish grievances are no longer heard OF,
the cry for total separation having replaced all
Others. What was treason In the revolt of 1866,
condemned by Piux IX, is now regarded as amere
matter OF practical politics. But, says the memoir
acts against morality and religion the peace OF
society cannot, like the chameleon OF Gladstone,
change their hue; and acts OF Parnell and his
followers are still under papal condemnation.
1t Is not necessary, therefore, for the pope TO
this their leader being free-thinker and outside
OF the pale OF the church, is exempt from. But
that will not exempt his followers who profess 10
be Catholics. After cOndemning Parnell for his
association with apostles of violence. the memoir
declares that to accomplish his self-assumed task
OF breaking the last link that unites Ireland to
England, he made traitors OF the masses OF the
Irish people. The means by which he sought 10
dissolve the union are denounced In most IN
measured terms while the stools" he employed 20
spread terrorism" throughout Ireland are held up
to public execratlon. The memoir then continues:
1.-THE acts OF the Fenfan party are the sureSt wit
and, second what IL Will be II they get supreme
power. They now claim the support OF Catholics
Of Rome and other foreign countries, who OF late
movement. Such can have no notion OF the horri-
bic terrorism OF which ParnelliDe rule, wherever II
which has from the first been the source OF Par.
nellS power"
In support Of this view 1t gives long catalogue
OF agrar1an crimes. committed between January.
1886. and March, 1887, derived from the last re-
port OF the general of the Irish constab-
uary, and declares that the perpetrators or these
atrocious Outrsges must be brought to punishment
II the loyal section OF the population is not to be
exterminated. 1t insists that every one who has
any sympathy for the sufIerings OF mankind
should hail with Joy the passing OF the crimes
act, and adds: But incredible as it may seem,
there is a party opposed TO 1t In parliament
on whom the appalling suf1erings OF the de-
hacked down and butchered as II they Were wild
beasts go for nOthtng-a party led by the very
that Nero or Draco would hardly have dared 70
pass. The bill is opposed by them on the plea
that 1t is coercion BILL and not what the house
OF commons calls II, crimes bill. That Is their
plea for the conspiracy now entered into by Glad
stone and Parnell to impede its passing and be-
Sag 70 % Ih h nope 81 oy rs In
which now obtains in Ireland, because they see
that In its extinction the reign OF Parnelism and
crime will come to an end"
Nothing, it holds, can justify the opposition ~
the immediate passing Of the bill, and il predicts
that GiadstOnes hostility to the measure will Ut
terly ruin his character as statesman. il al
tributes much OF the bitterness OF the opposition
OF Gladstone and his Parnelite allies TO the fact
that Lord Salisbury has promised TO make Catho-
lie and Protestant education OF the Irish people a
government question. After expressing the sor-
row OF the Irish college at the Phoenix Park muir
ucTS anu lue subsequent BiOIllcdliOH" Ol lnaC
eXecrabe deed, the memoir concludes as follows:
'The party with whom Gladstone has now iden-
titled himself for the furtherance OF revolution
airy movement which has for fits avOwed object the
dismemberment OF the United Kingdom haze done
everything possible or late to persuade Catholics
by their speeches In and out OF parliament that
the vicar of Christ was In favor OF IL. Could the
English government be brought TO believe this
outrageous calumny, what would they think Of
the pope What would the emperors OF Austria,
Germany and China think OF him? What would
the world at large think OF him? What would nom
Catholics who believe In revelation, think OF the
Catholic Church II its head on earth could view,
except with profound sorrow, a movement which
is fi1ling Ireland with anarchy and devastation?
Woe to a movement which, unless its days are
shortened, will leave a land that once flowed with
milk and honey desert without religion"